My friend Ethan Johns from SWAT Magazine has come up with a couple of interesting new shooting standards drills. One of them is the 10 Round Assault Course, shown here being shot by Ethan himself:
Target is a standard NRA B8 bullseye replacement center. Scoring is for actual points so a 10-ring hit is worth a lot more than peripherals.
Start from the holster at 25yd.
- On the buzzer, draw and fire two rounds (2).
- Advance to the 15yd line keeping gun safely in control, fire two (2) rounds.
- Advance to the 7yd line keeping gun safely in control, fire three (3) rounds.
- Fire three (3) more rounds while advancing forward from the 7yd line.
Score is simply listed as points and time. For example, the first time I ran this I scored 94 points in 13.40 seconds, so 94/13.40. Ethan recommends using 80 points in 20 seconds as a passing score.
This and Ethan’s other new test appeared in the January 2014 edition of SWAT Magazine.
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
With the way my eyes are working these days, I don’t think I’d be able to reliably see that target at 25yds, the centers of your P-T targets are hard enough.
Probably best just to (limited) “Comstock” the score (points per second). Ethan shot a 7.01. His suggested passing score is 4.0
This makes comparing performances easier than having to consider whether a 94/13.40 is better or worse than a 87/12.25 or a 98/17.30
Most person’s phones have a calculator function nowadays, so no “math is hard” excuses. 😉
Rosco — Cannot agree with that. We ran a little exercise over at pistol-forum.com not too long ago and proved pretty conclusively that when you use a tightly degrading target (where the 10-point zone is much smaller than the 7-point zone) you very quickly pay to drop points. The amount of time it takes to hit 10’s at 25yd as opposed to 7’s would completely throw off the balance that the drill tries to find by having such fine gradations and small bullseye. You might as well just shoot A’s and -0’s on an IPSC/IDPA target.
I’m certainly not saying there’s no time or place for such targets and drills. Just look at the target I designed for my classes, the main zone is a big 8″ circle. But this exercise is more accuracy focused than that and hit factor isn’t going to measure what it’s trying to test.